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Actor Taye Diggs went public with his new romance at the 2014 BET Awards on Sunday. The “Private Practice” star hit the red carpet with his new girlfriend Amanza Smith Brown, who he held close as the …

Actor Taye Diggs went public with his new romance at the 2014 BET Awards on Sunday.

The “Private Practice” star hit the red carpet with his new girlfriend Amanza Smith Brown, who he held close as the pair posed for photographers at the annual awards show.

It is the first time Diggs has appeared with the brunette beauty at a public event following his split from his wife of 11 years, Idina Menzel, in December.

The former couple first met while starring on Broadway in “Rent” in 1995 and they have a son, Walker. Earlier this month, “Frozen” star Menzel admitted it was tough being back on the dating scene again.

She said, “It all sucks. I don’t want to keep introducing him (Walker) to people and having him form bonds and then take them away, you know. It’s bad enough his mom and dad are getting divorced.”

Actress and singer Idina Menzel has confessed getting back into the dating game “sucks” after splitting from her husband, Taye Diggs. The couple parted ways last December after nearly 10 years of …

Idina Menzel(Photo by Walter McBride/Getty Images)

Actress and singer Idina Menzel has confessed getting back into the dating game “sucks” after splitting from her husband, Taye Diggs.

The couple parted ways last December after nearly 10 years of marriage, and now Menzel has opened up about the next phase in her life, including being a single mother to their 4-year-old son, Walker.

Menzel tells radio show Valentine in the Morning, “It all sucks. I don’t want to keep introducing him (Walker) to people and having him form bonds and then take them away, you know. It’s bad enough his mom and dad are getting divorced.”

The Broadway star knows first hand of the effects of divorced parents, as her own mother and father split when she was a teenager.

She divulges, “I went through it when I was 15 years old. I keep telling myself, because I feel so badly for him, it’s better that he’s four and a half than when he’s 15.

“He has two parents that love him very much and we want to be great moms and dads. At 15 I was too aware, I thought I was an adult, and I got in the middle of everything and I took on the stress for both of them.”

Menzel and Diggs wed in 2003 after meeting during the Broadway run of “Rent” in 1995.

Actor Taye Diggs has opened up about his split from Idina Menzel for the first time, confessing he was afraid fans would “trip out” over their break-up because they were an “easy couple to root for.” …

Taye Diggs(Photo by Rob Kim/Getty Images)

Actor Taye Diggs has opened up about his split from Idina Menzel for the first time, confessing he was afraid fans would “trip out” over their break-up because they were an “easy couple to root for.”

Diggs and “Frozen” star Menzel surprised fans last December by announcing they were separating after nearly 11 years of marriage.

The couple first met while starring on Broadway in “Rent” in 1995, and Diggs tells Redbook magazine he feared fans’ reaction to their separation news because devotees have followed their romance for over a decade.

He explains, “I’d be lying if I said there weren’t times when I thought, ‘Oh, man, people are going to trip out (go crazy) if we split.’

“Maybe they thought it was cute that we met in ‘Rent.’ There weren’t a lot of couples like us in the theatre community – and I know there aren’t a lot of performers as talented as she is … and then you have the whole mixed race thing. … It was easy for people to root for us.”

Diggs has since relocated from New York to Los Angeles to film his new TV series “Murder in the First,” and he admits the former couple is still trying to work through the challenges of bringing up its 4-year-old son, Walker, as Menzel stars in Broadway musical “If/Then.”

He says, “Right now, we’re still trying to figure out a lot of stuff because we’re on different coasts and our son is getting older.”

Actress Idina Menzel has ruled herself out of a big screen adaptation of hit musical “Wicked,” saying she’s been told she’s “too old” for the part. The Broadway icon originated the role of Elphaba, …

Idina Menzel. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Variety)

Actress Idina Menzel has ruled herself out of a big screen adaptation of hit musical “Wicked,” saying she’s been told she’s “too old” for the part.

The Broadway icon originated the role of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, alongside Kristin Chenoweth as Glinda in 2003, and was a huge success.

There have been plans for a movie version of the tale, about the beginnings of the Wizard of Oz characters, for several years, but 42-year-old Menzel says she and Chenoweth are now too old to reprise their iconic roles.

Speaking to Andy Cohen on “Watch What Happens Live,” she was asked if she had been approached to star in the film, to which she quipped: “Yeah, as the mother of Elphaba.”

She added: “I would die to be in (the film), except I’m afraid Kristin and I… they told us we’re a little over the age for that.

Hot off her Oscar performance — and getting her name butchered by John Travolta — Idina Menzel stopped by “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Monday night for a much-different rendering of the …

Hot off her Oscar performance — and getting her name butchered by John Travolta — Idina Menzel stopped by “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Monday night for a much-different rendering of the Academy Award-winning song “Let It Go” along with Fallon, the Roots and little tiny classroom instruments.

Singer/actress Idina Menzel has confirmed she’ll perform at the Oscars for the first time next month. The Tony Award-winning singer will sing the Oscar-nominated Best Song “Let it Go” from “Frozen” at …

Singer/actress Idina Menzel has confirmed she’ll perform at the Oscars for the first time next month. The Tony Award-winning singer will sing the Oscar-nominated Best Song “Let it Go” from “Frozen” at the Academy Awards in Hollywood on March 2.